Die angeborene Hüftdysplasie läßt sich in den ersten Lebensmonaten nicht statistisch abgrenzen!

✍ Scribed by D. Tönnis

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 276 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-3916
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00415463

✦ Synopsis

The question whether congenital hip dysplasia can be defined statistically has been raised again by Kristen, Dorda and Zweymüller. These authors believe that a definition is possible by statistical methods. Compiling a normal material for statistical evaluation, however, needs a clinical separation of normal and dysplastic joints before. And this--in our opinion--is not possible during the first half year of life. The only possible way is a long-term follow-up. In our own investigation children with higher acetabular indices have been followed up to 5 years and more. Only by this clinical evaluation is it possible to say which joints have developed normally and which have not. This is a clinical diagnosis of hip dysplasia, not a statistical.